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Thursday, June 22, 2017

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President Donald Trump is shown in an official White House handout image meeting with his National Security team and being briefed by Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Joseph Dunford via secure video teleconference after a missile strike on Syria while inside the Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility at his Mar-a-Lago resort in West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S. April 6, 2017. White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer stated that this image has been digitally edited for security purposes when he released the photo via Twitter on April 7, 2017. The White House/Handout v...more »

The claim that a text challenges present understanding is irrelevant. Neither have a monopoly on truth but are attempts to describe faithfully an understanding to which we need to become sympathetic. The second problem is that marriage between a master race and a subjected race must be between two races of humanity. At best this involved human giants for which we have archeological evidence. None of this produces the Nephilim who are surely an alien life form plausibly responsible fior the rise of man. Again we have convincing archeological evidence in Peru. I have little ...more »

It is actually a good time to think about this. The fundamental problem with Bitcoin is that the rules can be changed. This happens all the time in the securities business producing massive losses. From my perspective it is actually only a matter of time. Lawyers are not paid to preserve the status quo but to turn things to the advantage of his client. Thus every lawyer out there is scheming to print bitcoins at no cost. Getting past that problem and it becomes a store of value in the same way Gold is. What makes gold work is how hard it is to produce. That still might cha...more »

In case you have not noticed. the number of events has increased dramatically over the past two years. Obviously this is intended because it all demands money. This how fascism arose back in the day along with Communism itself. Countering it means finding the money and really going after them. Soras in particular is not shy in the types he funds either. It is also obvious that the mainstream media is also funded as well. Tying it all together is necessary but the counter attack is now. That means teating activists as an enemy and draining hem of information.. *Mainstr...more »

What i have learned from much effort is that every scrap of evidence needs to be viewed by every possible educated eyeball and that no eyeball should be held in extreme repute. This allows the creation of a set of reports that should ultimately exceed two dozen. Then it is also possible to define a set of what i have called conforming data. Even better each eyeball sees a generalized image but then hones in on a particular aspect. In this item i observe that the theology thinks man is responsible for his destiny. Rather an important question when we see ample evidence that ou...more »

*7 News/AFP:* *New East Ukraine ceasefire set for Saturday: separatists* Kiev (AFP) - A fresh ceasefire between pro-Russian separatists entrenched in eastern Ukraine and Ukrainian forces will come into force this weekend, Ukraine and the separatists said Wednesday. The truce, set to start at midnight local time on Saturday, was agreed at a meeting of the Contact Group for Ukraine attended by the separatists, said spokeswoman Viktoria Talakina. The Contact Group is made up of representatives from Kiev, Moscow and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE). "The...more »

Paul Craig Roberts: Another Step Toward Devastating War by Paul Craig Roberts, http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/ This is your site. Support it. An idiot American pilot shot down a Syrian fighter that was attacking ISIS, thus confirming that Washington is not fighting ISIS, as Washington claims, but is protecting ISIS, its agent sent to Syria by Obama and Hillary […]

Published on Jun 21, 2017 US President Donald Trump has only worsened the situation in Syria and has put his country on a path towards military conflict with Russia and Iran, says an American analyst. end

Published on Jun 20, 2017 Israel has stepped up its settlement activities in the occupied West Bank. Data released by Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics shows construction of settler units in the area soared by 70-percent between April 20-16 and March 20-17. Israeli watchdog “Peace Now” says the settlement boom comes as there has been […]

Delingpole: The Pause in Global Warming Is Real, Admits Climategate Scientist by JAMES DELINGPOLE, http://www.breitbart.com/ The ‘Pause’ in global warming is real and the computer models predicting dramatically increased temperatures have failed. – This is the shocking admission of a paper published this week in Nature Geoscience. It’s shocking because the paper’s lead author is none other than Ben […]

After Shocking Saudi Shakeup “Not A Question Of If But When New Escalation With Iran Starts” by Tyler Durden, http://www.zerohedge.com Two days ago, when reporting on the surprising “terrorist attempt” by Iran’s National Guard on a major Saudi offshore oilfiled (at least according to Saudi media), we said that “if the Saudi account of events […]

Published on Jun 21, 2017 Questions are mounting over the true mission of the US in the Syrian conflict after the US shot down several Syrian planes including two Iranian-built drones. Former Pentagon official Michael Maloof and former CIA officer Ray McGovern join RT America’s Natasha Sweatte to discuss the heightened tensions in the region […]

Published on Jun 21, 2017 Increasing U.S. military strikes against Assad-allied forces in Syria threaten to undermine the fight against ISIS and spark direct conflict with Russia and Iran, says Ben Norton of Alternet’s Grayzone Project. end

Published on Jun 21, 2017 Tensions between US and Russia continue to escalate, from NATO encroachment on Russia’s borders to US belligerence in Syria. Daniel Kovalik, professor of international human rights, joins RT America’s Natasha Sweatte to discuss the flimsiness of “Russiagate” claims and how they originated in Clinton’s search for a scapegoat to explain […]

Published on Jun 20, 2017 In this wide-ranging exclusive interview, former intelligence analyst turned whistleblower Edward Snowden tells all. What to say to those who argue that they’ve got nothing to hide so nothing to fear from the intrusive ears of the state? Snowden is engagingly philosophical yet frank about his current position and where […]

Pentagon Warns Russia for ‘Unsafe’ Intercept of US Spy Plane Over Baltic Sea by SOFIA PETKAR, http://www.express.co.uk/ THE US has issued a warning to Russia after a fighter jet flew within five feet of a US Air Force reconnaissance plane in an “unsafe” manner over the Baltic Sea. – The near-miss occurred over international waters on Monday, […]

Is SUPERVOLCANO Which Could Wipe USA Off the Map about to Erupt in Yellowstone Park? by SEAN MARTIN, http://www.express.co.uk/ HUNDREDS of earthquakes recorded at the Yellowstone supervolcano in less than a week has sparked fears that the huge caldera is set to erupt in cataclysmic fashion. – More than 500 tremors have rocked the Wyoming-based volcano in […]

Crisis On The Horizon: Will It Be Economic Collapse? Global Civil Unrest? War? We Won’t Have To Guess Much Longer … by Jeremiah Johnson, June 20th, 2017, SHTFplan.com “Never let a crisis go to waste.” -Rahm Emmanuel The algorithm is simple: Governments coerce their pet monkeys to pay taxes into the system – the self-perpetuating machine – and thereby […]

If The U.S. Continues To Creep Toward World War 3, Eventually It Is Going To Happen by Michael Snyder, http://endoftheamericandream.com/ After a bit of a lull for the past couple of months, the march toward war appears to be accelerating once again. On Monday the U.S. military shot down yet another Syrian aircraft, and it appears that […]

*Verlinde has already joined the community of fraudulent pseudoscientists who keep on "working" on something they must know to be complete rubbish* In the text Researchers Check Space-Time to See if It’s Made of Quantum Bits, the Quanta Magazine describes a fresh paper by Kris Pardo (Princeton U.) Testing Emergent Gravity with Isolated Dwarf Galaxies which tested some 2016 dark matter "application" of Erik Verlinde's completely wrong "entropic gravity" meme. Verlinde has irrationally linked his "entropic gravity" meme with some phenomenological, parameter-free fit for the behavior o...more »

The destruction of the Great Mosque of Mosul points to the continued survival of ISIS leader Ibrahim Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi and to his determination that the mosque where he declared himself Caliph should not fall into the hands of apostates. The post ISIS destroys Great Mosque of Mosul; ISIS leader probably still alive appeared first on The Duran.

BEIRUT, LEBANON (6:30 A.M.) – The Australian regime resumed its bombing campaign in Syria, Thursday, after a 48 hour suspension of military operations in the Levantine country. Initially, Australia suspended its bombing campaign following the downing of a Syrian Su-22 jet in the western countryside of the Al-Raqqa Governorate, as the Canberra regime feared for […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز

BEIRUT, LEBANON (6:20 A.M.) – The Islamic State (ISIL) launched a surprise offensive in the western countryside of Al-Raqqa, Wednesday, in a new bid to cutoff the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) from their only supply line to the key town of Resafa. However, the ISIL offensive would not go as planned, as Syrian Army scouts […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز

(TASS) The removal of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is no longer a priority in finding a solution to the Syrian crisis, as it is necessary to focus on the fight against terrorism, French President Emmanuel Macron said in an interview with a number of European newspapers. “I no longer view Assad’s removal as a precondition […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز

BEIRUT, LEBANON (4:40 A.M.) – The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) resumed their large-scale offensive in the eastern part of Damascus, Wednesday, targeting the territory controlled by the jihadist rebels in Jobar and ‘Ayn Tarma. Led by the 105th Brigade of the Republican Guard, the Syrian Arab Army managed to advance inside the Taybah sector of […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز

DAMASCUS, SYRIA (4:25 A.M.) – Rebel forces operating in southern Syria are coming under increasing pressure by the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) as the latter tries to drive the former across the border in a bid to eliminate an opposition pocket spanning across eastern Sweida, Rif Dimashq and southeastern Homs. Footage has now emerged of […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز

(TASS) The appointment of Saudi Arabian Prince Mohammed bin Salman as crown prince marks “the logical conclusion of the period of changes in the highest levels of the country’s government,” Lebanese expert on inter-Arab relations Nidal Sabi told TASS on Wednesday. “It is obvious that King Salman’s decision to appoint his son as a crown […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز

*RT:** Moscow cancels meeting with top US diplomat over new sanctions batch* Russia has condemned the new round of US sanctions as a “continuation of the trend set by the Obama administration aimed at ruining relations between our countries” and has promptly canceled a scheduled meeting of senior Russian and American diplomats. The US Treasury expanded the sanction list on Tuesday, adding 38 individuals and organizations over alleged Russian involvement in the Ukrainian crisis. Russia vowed to undertake “practical retaliatory measures” over the sanctions and canceled a scheduled ...more »

F-22 *Washington Examiner: **Air Force gives House classified report on restarting F-22 program* The Air Force has provided the House a classified report on restarting the F-22 Raptor fighter jet program, congressional staff said Tuesday. The House Armed Services Committee received the report two days ago, but staff said it was still being reviewed. House lawmakers ordered the report last year to determine what it would take and how much it might cost to begin producing the high-tech, fifth generation aircraft again. *Read more *.... *WNU Editor*: The report is classified .... bu...more »

A case can be made that Joe Crowley is the most corrupt Democrat in Congress. Here at *DWT* we’ve been making that case for years. Pelosi and Hoyer were able to pull some strings for him when he was looking like a goner in front of the House Ethics Committee and do a prisoner exchange-- a whole pack of corrupt Republicans in return for Crowley. Crowley is a Rahm-like bag man for the New Dems whose modus operandi is basically to go to corporate lobbyists and agree to get progressive legislation buried or watered down in return for the pay-offs that have led to inside-the-caucus pol...more »

The State University of New York at Albany has tapped a prominent Latino administrator to lead the state institution. Dr. Havidán Rodríguez becomes the first Hispanic president of any SUNY four-year college.

French President Emmanuel Macron signals abandonment of regime change policy saying removal of President Assad from power is no longer France's "priority" which will focus on working with Russia to defeat Jihadi terrorism instead. The post BREAKING: Macron abandons regime change in Syria; says ‘no legitimate successor’ to Assad appeared first on The Duran.

Tata group and Lockheed Martin executives sign the F-16 agreement. (Courtesy of Lockheed Martin) *CNN*: *Lockheed Martin says it will make F-16 fighter jets in India * One of the world's best-known fighter jets could soon be built in India. Lockheed Martin (LMT) said Monday that it will make its classic F-16 aircraft in the South Asian nation, if the Indian government grants it a contract to supply fighter jets to the country's air force. The U.S. firm will build the jets through a partnership with Indian industrial giant Tata, the companies announced at the Paris Air Show. Maryla...more »

HAVANA — Making good on his deal with Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Florida) and Rep. Mario Díaz-Balart (R-Florida), President Donald Trump announced Friday that he plans to roll back some of the steps Barack Obama took to normalize relations between the United States and Cuba. In 2015, Obama weakened restrictions on Americans traveling to Cuba and... Read more »

Can artificial intelligence help us stop drowning in paperwork? Jiw Ingka/shutterstock.com We humans are swamped with text. It’s not just news and other timely information: Regular people are drowning in legal documents. The problem is so bad we mostly ignore it. Every time a person uses a store’s loyalty rewards card or connects to an online service, his or her activities are governed by the equivalent of hundreds of pages of legalese. Most people pay no attention to these massive documents, often labeled “terms of service,” “user agreement” or “privacy policy.” These are just par...more »

*Sean J. Casey* - Our society took a major turn for the worse with the prohibition of marijuana at the behest of the energy industry. The post A Brief History of Cannabis and Hemp Prohibition appeared first on Waking Times.

*Phillip Schneider* - The race is on to protect cannabis seed from the world’s most hated company. The post Monsanto and Bayer are Maneuvering to Take Over the Cannabis Industry appeared first on Waking Times.

I've never been much of a writer (let alone one of my father's caliber), but I know that I must express my thanks to you all somehow. The support that we have received over these past few months has been more than I would have ever thought possible. A few weeks before my father passed away, he heard about the GoFundMe page (that our dear friend A.J. Ellis took it upon himself to set up) reaching $10,000 in his support. He said, "I didn't know that many people cared." I think he knew, though. He was unrelentingly humble about his accomplishments -- sometimes to a fault. But that's on...more »

The private student loan company executive selected to head the Federal Student Aid agency (FSA) is affiliated with a company that a federal judge recently described as “very aggressive” about fighting efforts to discharge student loans, court records obtained by Diverse show.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Aspiring Missouri college police officers will face the same training as other future cops under a bill signed by the governor. Republican Gov. Eric Greitens on Tuesday signed the legislation. Current law calls for at least 320 hours of training for college police compared to at least 470 hours for most […]

It is now that time of year when I am enjoying the Nantucket Film Festival. My wife and I today saw The Big Sick. Despite the not very enticing title, we loved it. The film is based on the real-life romance of the two screen writers, emphasizing the difficulty of bridging cross-cultural expectations. It is more heartfelt than a standard rom-com, more comedic than a drama, more earnest than standard Hollywood fare. Most definitely recommended, especially for a date night.

*Dave Majumdar* *Security, * So what happenned? And who would win in a dog fight? *The final operational version of the F-23 would have offered much better range than the Raptor—especially at supersonic speeds—especially if powered by the YF120. That would have come in handy over the Pacific. It would also have been stealthier and it would have been almost as maneuverable as the Raptor—or possibly more so at different speeds and altitudes.* In 1991, Lockheed won the Advanced Tactical Fighter (ATF) competition and went on to develop the stealthy world beating F-22 Raptor air supe...more »

*The Guardian:* *World population to hit 8bn in 2023, says new UN survey* New findings show more men than women and that there will be 1bn over-60s next year for the first time The world’s population will break through the 8 billion mark in 2023, there are more men than women, and next year the number of over 60s will top 1 billion for the first time, according to the latest findings and forecasts from the United Nations annual population survey. More than half of the global population growth by 2050 will come from sub-Saharan Africa, where fertility rates will persist at levels f...more »

Democrats prioritized flipping a Republican seat in Georgia, but they lost. They need to take responsibility for Jon Ossoff's failure to win. The post What If Jon Ossoff Campaigned On Message For Medicare For All? appeared first on Shadowproof.

The latest attacks in London and Manchester – like last year’s attacks in Orlando, Florida and St. Cloud, Minnesota – epitomize what I call the newest form of terrorism. The newest terrorists aim to kill as many people as possible, as frequently as possible, as horrifically as possible, intimately, suicidally, with the most accessible weapons, in the most accessible public spaces. Defining what terrorism is can be contentious but over the years scholars have identified several distinct waves. The “old” wave of terrorism from the 1960s was largely secular, aiming for political repr...more »

BEIRUT, LEBANON (4:00 A.M.) – Family members of the Syrian Lieutenant Colonel Pilot Ali Fahd, whose aircraft was shot down by US-led coalition forces on Monday, gave an exclusive interview in Salamiyah, Hama province, on Wednesday, during which they gave their account of what they know so far about their missing relative. “We, the Family […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز

BEIRUT, LEBANON (3:45 A.M.) – The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) recently liberated the key town of Resafa in the western countryside of the Al-Raqqa Governorate, marking the first time in five years that they have had a presence in this area. A video of the Syrian Arab Army’s Tiger Forces capturing Resafa was released by […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز

(MADRID 17:30) Police officers detained three Morrocan citizens suspected of having ties to the self-proclaimed Islamic State (IS; formerly ISIL/ISIS) in Madrid. The suspects were arrested during the raid near a house close to Atocha train station where all of the suspects were residing. According to officials at the Interior Ministry, the detainees were planning […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز

DAMASCUS, SYRIA (0:45 A.M.) – ISIS has released another lengthy propaganda video, this time covering its inevitable loss of Raqqa, the city in northern Syria which jihadists transformed into the Islamic State capital back in 2014. Featuring the aftermath of American airstrikes and their toll on buildings and civilians alike, the footage proceeds to show […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز

SANA’A, YEMEN (0:10 A.M.) – Scores of pro-Saudi troops alongside with Sudanese military have been reportedly killed when Yemeni Armed Forces targeted their gathering in the southern Saudi border region of Jizan, in retaliation for the ongoing Saudi shelling of popular markets and state infrastructure in Yemen. An unnamed military official told Yemen’s state Saba […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز

*Leonid Bershidsky, Bloomberg:* *The New Saudi Heir Is a Dangerous Man* Prince Mohammed bin Salman is too inexperienced and too hotheaded for the fraught situation in the Middle East. The abrupt change in Saudi Arabia's line of royal succession will probably help maintain the House of Saud's sway over its 31 million people, 70 percent of which are under 30. It is, however, a dangerous move in the context of a new Big Game unfolding in the Middle East, which involves the U.S. and Russia as well as local players. King Salman named his 31-year-old son, Mohammed bin Salman, as the ...more »

It’s nice-- *very nice*-- that Macron pulverized Le Pen and her fascist party. In Sunday’s parliamentary elections, Macron’s party won 350 seats, an absolute-- and unassailable-- majority in the 577 member National Assembly. Le Pen’s fascists won just 8 seats. That, though, is different from having reason to celebrate a great progressive victory. Ultimately, the fact that Macron detests and reviles Señor Trumpanzee is just funny and admirable, not governance. Neither Macron, a centrist former banker, nor his prime minister, conservative Édouard Philippe, is remotely progressive. ...more »

*Hal Brands, Eric Edelman* *Security, Americas* [image: An M1A2 main battle tank assigned to 1st Battalion, 35nd Armored Regiment breaches obstacles during AWA 17.1 at Fort Bliss on October 2016.] The friendly contours of the post–Cold War system have given way to a darker and more challenging environment. *“THE ESSENCE* of a revolution is that it appears to contemporaries as a series of more or less unrelated upheavals,” Henry Kissinger wrote in 1969. “But the crises which form the headlines of the day are symptoms of deep-seated structural problems.” Kissinger wrote this passag...more »

*Farhad Rezaei* *Security, Middle East* [image: Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei waves during a ceremony marking the death anniversary of the founder of the Islamic Republic Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, in Tehran, Iran, June 4, 2017.] Iran’s hard-liners are newly emboldened by the urge to secure Syria. The uneasy balance between Iran’s moderates under President Hassan Rouhani and the hard-liners, known as principlists, was shaken by the Tehran terror attack on June 7. The authorities reported that five Iranian Kurds carried out the assault on behalf of ISIS, and that ...more »

*Christopher A. Preble* *Security, Americas* [image: A U.S. Air Force F-15 Eagle, assigned to the 142nd Fighter Wing, Oregon Air National Guard, returns to Nellis Air Force, Nevada, after a night sortie in support of the Weapons Instructor Course, June 8, 2017.] Thus far, he has focused too much on the sticks and too little on speaking softly. Senators gave Secretary of State Rex Tillerson a rough reception last Tuesday when he came before them to defend the Trump administration’s plans for the State Department. Tillerson conceded that the proposal to cut the department budget b...more »

*Jordan Cohen* *Politics, Middle East* [image: Doha skyline.] The Gulf dispute could lead to food price increases, which would vastly intensify social unrest. The news that Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Yemen, the United Arab Emirates, Libya and the Maldives have severed diplomatic relations with Qatar will have consequences throughout the region, perhaps most severely in Doha itself. It seems clear that one of the attempted goals of this action was to devastate Qatar’s domestic economy and create instability. There is a rich background to the recent dispute. The most important ...more »

*Christine Bosworth* *Security, Asia* [image: Kim Jong Un reacts with Ri Pyong Chol and Jang Chang Ha during a test launch of ground-to-ground medium long-range ballistic rocket Hwasong-10 in this photo released June 23, 2016.] The United States can achieve denuclearization through stages. Over the last few months, we have heard the Trump administration voice the same worn out foreign policy that we have heard from previous administrations. There are the usual carrots: we remain open to negotiations as long as North Korea makes concessions; or sticks: “if China doesn’t solve the...more »

*Tom Spoehr* *Security, Americas* [image: Sgt. Kenton Smith, a combat engineer with Company A, 4th Brigade Special Troops Battalion, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, checks the progress of vehicles during a route clearance patrol in Khowst province, Afghanistan.] Responding quickly to modern war requires agile and rapid decisionmaking. That didn’t take long. Moments after news broke that President Donald Trump had delegated a measure of authority to adjust troop levels in Afghanistan to Secretary of Defense James Mattis, critics came out barking. Such delegation...more »

*Dave Majumdar* *Security, * And the reasons should he obvious. *The Raptor’s avionics were dated even before the jet was declared operational in December 2005. While the Raptor is the most advanced operational warplane in the Air Force’s inventory, its computer architecture dates back to the early 1990s. The core processors run at 25MHz–since it took so long to get the jet from the design phase to production. Moreover, the Raptor’s software is particularly obtuse and difficult to upgrade–which is partly why integrating the AIM-9X and AIM-120D missiles onto the aircraft has bee...more »

The FBI has assessed that the deceased shooter in Alexandria attack acted alone and there is no nexus to terrorism https://t.co/T5uqoA85rO pic.twitter.com/sPbxTsGppq — CBS News (@CBSNews) June 21, 2017 Courtesy of Salon: *The FBI announced on Wednesday that James T. Hodgkinson — the gunman who shot Rep. Steve Scalise, R-La., during a Congressional baseball practice — acted alone. * *“We also assessed that there was no nexus to terrorism,” Andrew Vale, assistant director of the FBI in Washington said. * *Hodgkinson, 66, was known to have an anger management problem as well and h...more »

By Bill Peacock Free markets and free trade within those markets benefit everyone. They ensure profits are justly earned based on value creation rather than access to political power or by imposing unjust costs on others.

[image: oregon-adds-third-gender-option-to-driver-s-licenses-state-ids] Oregon has enacted a controversial measure allowing its residents to identify themselves as male, female, or neither on driver's licenses and ID cards.

*"The Apple Orchard"* "Come let us watch the sun go down and walk in twilight through the orchard's green. Does it not seem as if we had for long collected, saved and harbored within us old memories? To find releases and seek new hopes, remembering half-forgotten joys, mingled with darkness coming from within, as we randomly voice our thoughts aloud wandering beneath these harvest-laden trees reminiscent of Durer woodcuts, branches which, bent under the fully ripened fruit, wait patiently, trying to outlast, to serve another season's hundred days of toil, straining, uncomplaining, by not ...more »

"A main "Criterion of Consciousness" for the human experience is never having all you want. For as one dream comes true, another swiftly takes its place. Not having all you want is one of life's constants. And learning to be happy while not yet having all you want is the first "Criterion of Joy." Nail it, and for the rest of your life people will be asking what it is about you. Yeah, as if they weren't already asking." "Desire is a beautiful thing." The Universe "Thoughts become things... choose the good ones!" www.tut.com

*“A Thief In The Night of America”* by Michael Kindt “Let’s say you’re trying to fix your screen door. Last night, let’s say, it was terribly windy and the door came open and flapped back and forth uselessly, much like a politician’s tongue. Perhaps you were away visiting family or something and weren’t home to halt the destruction. So the screen door is all loose and a little bent and will no longer shut. It’s hanging there, screaming WHITE TRASH to the neighborhood. So you go to work on it with a Phillips screwdriver, trying to tighten the hinges, but it’s very difficult. You ca...more »

ISIS has blown up the iconic al-Nuri mosque where it announced its own so called caliphate in 2014. Pictured: An image of the destruction release by Iraq's Joint Operation Command today *Daily Mail:* *ISIS 'blows up' the famous al-Nuri mosque in Mosul where leader al-Baghdadi declared so-called caliphate* * The Iraqi army was moving in on Grand Mosque in Mosul's Old city earlier today * The soldiers got within 50m of the iconic mosque when ISIS militants blew it up * 'ISIS terror gangs committed another historical crime,' Iraqi military said today * ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghd...more »

Matthew E. Kahn , Professor of Economics at USC provided this insightful post: What Does Energy Economics Teach Us About a Zero Carbon Electricity Grid by the year 2050? Energy engineers are having an interesting fight over whether the US electricity grid can “easily” be 100% renewables (and thus create 0 GHG emissions) in […]

Last week I posted a blog article titled, Censorship as Security http://majiasblog.blogspot.com/2017/06/censorship-as-security-facebook-boosts.html That post looks at how censorship is being practiced in the name of security, primarily through its automation by social media platforms such as Facebook. Today the Wall Street Journal had an article addressing large corporations’ pull-back from advertising on Youtube and Google because of their concern about “brand safety" Lara O'Reilly & Jack Nicas (June 21, 2017). YouTube ad mess divides brands. The Wall Street Journal, B1, B2, ...more »

COLUMBIA, Mo. — University of Missouri System President Mun Choi wants the university to rescind an honorary degree given to Bill Cosby nearly 20 years ago. The system’s Board of Curators will vote Friday on Choi’s recommendation. A university staff memo sent to the curators says sexual assault allegations against Cosby are “incompatible” with the […]

HARTFORD, Conn. — A private college in Connecticut has closed its campus due to threats made against the school after a professor’s social media post. Trinity College says it received multiple threats related to social media posts by Johnny Eric Williams. The campus of the liberal arts school in Hartford is closed until further notice. […]

AUGUSTA, Maine — The nation’s largest servicer of federal student loans has lobbied against states’ efforts to license student loan servicers in Maine and elsewhere this year as it seeks to become the nation’s single servicer of student loans under a plan backed by U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos. State records reviewed by The Associated […]

NEWARK, N.J. — An adjunct professor at a New Jersey community college is questioning why she was suspended after appearing on Fox News. Lisa Durden says she learned about the suspension June 8 when she arrived to teach a class at Essex County College. Durden, who is Black, had appeared two days earlier on “Tucker […]

LAWRENCEVILLE, N.J. — A New Jersey university’s plan to sell its music college to another institution is now facing a legal challenge. Supporters of Westminster Choir College sued Rider University on Tuesday. They claim any sale that would close the music school or move it from its 23-acre campus in Princeton is illegal and would […]

About 135 teachers, professors and partners from the University of California, Los Angeles community and tie-in schools gathered this week at UCLA to exchange strategies and best practices at the first “Learning Together: Practitioners and Scholars in Partnership” conference. The idea of partnerships was the theme of the conference, whether between practitioners and scholars, or […]

RED WARRIOR CAMP SPEAKS Contact: Email: redwarriormedia@gmail.com "Mni Sose' called our Spirits. From the four directions, we traveled alone or in caravans, to gather at the river banks. We formed a self-sufficient camp and lived together with love, ethics, principles, and protocols guided by ceremony, prayers and medicine. Our focused, singular, collective goal was to

[image: undefined] The US has no right to fly into Syrian airspace where it shouldn’t be and set boundaries but should mind its own business. Otherwise, it is an act of aggression, says former US Congressman Ron Paul. The US fighter jet downed an armed drone belonging to pro-Syrian government forces in southern Syria, near a base in the al-Tanf region, on June, 20 as the drone was advancing on US-backed forces, according to a coalition statement. This is happening at a time of escalating tension between Moscow and Washington. Also on Tuesday, Australia said it is temporarily suspen...more »

*Isn't this interesting? She lied. All these years later. * *Just another example of how your perception is managed and how narratives are contrived to serve agendas. How much of this vile woman's testimony factored into the demonization of the Germanwings pilot? All of it, I'll bet. Trial by media, as usual! * *Keep this in mind as we follow the USS Fitzgerald incident* *Link- June 21/2017* *"Maria W." told a German newspaper she was the lover of Andreas Lubitz, who copiloted the Germanwings flight that killed 150 people in 2015. * *Days after the crash, the German newspaper Bild p...more »

*Mohamad Bazzi, The Guardian:* *The Growing U.S.-Iran Proxy Fight in Syria* The scramble for Islamic State territory is raising the risks of escalation. On Sunday evening, a U.S. warplane shot down a Syrian jet after it bombed American-backed rebels in northern Syria. This marked the first time the United States has downed a Syrian warplane since the start of the country’s civil war in 2011. On Tuesday, the Pentagon announced that the United States had shot down an Iranian-made drone in the country’s southeast, where American personnel have been training anti-Islamic State fighters...more »

*Reuters:* *Iraqi forces advance on Mosul mosque where IS declared caliphate* U.S.-backed Iraqi forces on Wednesday began a push towards the mosque in Mosul where Islamic State declared a self-styled caliphate three years ago, military officials said. The forces had encircled the jihadist group's stronghold in the Old City of Mosul, where the medieval Grand al-Nuri Mosque is located, on Tuesday, they said. The Counter Terrorism Service (CTS) were 200-300 meters (yards) away from the mosque, an Iraqi military statement said, a view supported by a senior commander of the internati...more »

You don't have to understand Korean to watch this short news report about people on Jeju island, South Korea being angry about the port call by a US Aegis destroyer to the new Navy base in Gangjeong village. The news report shows footage of the Navy war exercises that will be going on between the US, Canada and South Korean navies. (Imagine all the sea life killed and pollution resulting from these so-called games.) You also see a bit of the protest at the front gate of the new Navy base.

[image: six-baltimore-schools-can-t-produce-a-single-student-proficient-in-english-or-math] Despite spending more per pupil than all but two large school districts in America, at least half a dozen government schools in Baltimore were unable to produce one single student who was proficient in either English or math last year.

[image: u-s-satellites-detect-activity-at-n-korean-nuclear-test-site-u-s-seeks-china-s-help] Two unnamed U.S. officials told CNN that U.S. satellites have detected new activity at North Korea’s underground nuclear test site for the first time in several weeks.

[image: oil-expert-yardeni-opec-should-break-agreement-produce-all-it-can] Energy expert Ed Yardeni is suggesting OPEC go back to flooding the world with oil because trying to deprive the world of oil isn't boosting crude prices.

[image: aclj-s-chief-counsel-jay-sekulow-is-trump-s-newest-legal-advisor] New presidential legal advisor Jay Sekulow brings a great deal more to the president than just a conservative bent on critical issues.

Now look I will only come if you promise there will be no booing. You may remember that two Sundays ago we reported that Trump was refusing to travel to the United Kingdom until people started being nicer to him there. In response both the UK and US responded that the trip was still a go. Well as it turns out, not so much. Courtesy of The Telegraph: *Donald Trump's state visit to the UK appears to have been shelved for at least two years after it was not included in the Queen's speech. * *The Queen's address usually mentions planned state visits, but Wednesday's speech only conta...more »

The leaning Hadba minaret is pictured on June 19, 2017 in Mosul *AFP:* *IS blows up Mosul mosque where Baghdadi announced 'caliphate': commander* Jihadists on Wednesday blew up Mosul's iconic leaning minaret and the adjacent mosque where their leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi declared a "caliphate" in his only public appearance in 2014, an Iraqi commander said. The Islamic State group swiftly issued a statement via its Amaq propaganda agency blaming a US strike. "Our forces were advancing toward their targets deep in the Old City and when they got to within 50 metres (yards) of the Nur...more »

You have your hot takes, and you have your duff takes. There's little doubt which category Daniel Allington's latest lazy missive on Corbynism and the Labour Party falls into. His piece looks at the some features of Labour's electoral performance that should be a cause of concern: that ethnically homogeneous (white) working class voters with few formal qualifications are less likely to vote Labour than was previously the case, *and* that this has accelerated between 2015 and 2017. He also notes that if a Labour-held constituency voted leave in the EU referendum,...more »

"The early bird catches the worm; a stitch in time saves nine. He who hesitates is lost. We can't pretend we haven't been told. We've all heard the proverbs, heard the philosophers, heard our grandparents warning us about wasted time, heard the damn poets urging us to ‘seize the day'. Still sometimes we have to see for ourselves. We have to make our own mistakes. We have to learn our own lessons. We have to sweep today's possibility under tomorrow's rug until we can't anymore, until we finally understand for ourselves like Benjamin Franklin meant: that knowing is better than wonder...more »

*“21 Everyday Phrases That Come Straight From Shakespeare's Plays”* by Elena Holodny “William Shakespeare wrote a lot of great plays, but he also coined and popularized a lot of words and phrases that we still use to this day. We put together a list of our 21 favorites. Check them out: *1. "Puking"* "All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players: They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms..." How Shakespeare uses it: "Puking" was first re...more »

*"Spoiling for a Wider War in Syria”* By Robert Parry "The U.S. mainstream media’s near universal demonization of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Russian President Vladimir Putin – along with similar hatred directed toward Iran and Hezbollah – has put the world on a path toward World War III. Ironically, the best hope for averting a dangerous escalation into a global conflict is to rely on Assad, Putin, Iran and Hezbollah to show restraint in the face of illegal military attacks by the United States and its Mideast allies inside Syria. In other words, after the U.S. military h...more »

An electronic petition for Australia to follow the US lead and immediately withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement is now open for signatures. It received approval from the petitions committee Wednesday 21/6. Various details are shown below (with a 'contents' list at the top). Please spread the word. *CONTENTS* 1. URLs 2. Reformatted petition 3. Background and explanatory notes 4. Biographical note *1 URLs* Direct: http://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Petitions/House_of_Representatives_Petitions/Petitions_General/Petitions_List?id=EN0264 *OR* http://ti...more »

Monday, Randy Bryce launched his campaign to repeal and replace Paul Ryan in a southeast Wisconsin district the DCCC has always made clear to Democrats was “off the table.” That’s where Randy lives and a bunch of political hacks in DC claiming his district is “off the table,” isn’t going to stop him for a minute. The fish rots from the head and if Trump can’t be held accountable until 2020, Speaker Ryan’s time is now. And Randy is the exact right person to do just that. We covered his announcement on Monday morning. And Randy is no kid who will ever be pushed around by the DCCC or...more »

DAMASCUS, SYRIA (11:50 P.M.) – On Wednesday evening, the Al-Nouri mosque in the Old City of Mosul was blown up by explosives planted by ISIS insurgents, an Iraqi military source told Al-Masdar News. The infamous mosque was reduced to rubbles after the Iraqi Army’s Counter Terrorism Units advanced within 50 meters of the infamous holy […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز

Democrats' defeat in bye-election in Georgia's Sixth Congressional District following a string of three other defeats confirms Russiagate is failing to gain traction and that the Democrats are going nowhere The post Shock for Democrats as Jon Ossoff loses in Georgia appeared first on The Duran.

Paul Driessen (CFACT) sent me the following article with this statement and request: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has been roundly criticized in recent years for numerous errors of omission and commission, for secret email accounts designed to hide questionable official dealings and activities, and for being increasingly dictatorial in implementing policies that are often rooted in highly “liberal” interpretations of federal laws and scientific research. What many people don’t realize is that problems like these have plagued the agency since its inception in 1970. Energy...more »

*WEDNESDAY, JUNE 21, 2017There must never be blood:* Thomas Friedman wrote an excellent column today, except for the fact that he wrote a remarkably terrible column. You see, Friedman observed a key tenet of Hard Pundit Law: There must never be blood. Friedman's column concerns the disintegration of our political culture. As he starts, he describes the rise of a political culture devoted to hard tribal vision. This is the way the column begins. Hard-copy headline included: FRIEDMAN (6/21/17): *Where Did ‘We the People’ Go?* A few days ago I was at a conference in Montreal, and ...more »

By Robert Henneke Whether it be by a strict enforcement of ethics rules or the end of slush fund payouts to private interest groups, the Department of Justice is cleaning up its act, and the timing couldn’t be better to restore America’s trust.

[image: new-study-puberty-blocking-drugs-not-right-for-gender-dysphoria] A new study shows once more that significant research is still needed in order for doctors to understand how to treat transgenderism, particularly in young patients. Unfortunately, the scientific approach to gender dysphoria has been heavily influenced by the PC movement and as such may be resorting to harmful interventions to appease social-justice warriors. According to the study published in *The New Atlantis* on Tuesday, children suffering from gender dysphoria should not be treated with puberty-blocking dr...more »

*DW:* *Are US and Russia inching toward confrontation in Syria?* The downing of a Syrian military plane by a US fighter jet is the latest - and perhaps most serious - sign of a stepped-up US military role in the war. That could put the United States on a collision course with Russia. When a US Navy F/A-18E Super Hornet shot down a Russian-made Syrian SU-22 warplane after it reportedly attacked US-supported fighters near the embattled city of Raqqa, it did not take long for Moscow to respond to what it viewed as an "aggression" against Syrian government forces, which the Kremlin ba...more »

In a discussion with Edward Snowden on his “Liberty Report," Ron Paul and the former NSA contractor trace the genesis of the so-called Deep State, and discuss how the US intelligence community uses covert programs like those exposed by Snowden in 2013 to trample individual freedoms. The most sinister quality of the Deep State, Snowden says, is its ability to mask its very existence from the public, allowing it to undermine President Donald Trump while remaining largely hidden from scrutiny. Generally, when we’re talking about the Deep State, what we’re talking about is a mass of ...more »

In a discussion with Edward Snowden on his “Liberty Report," Ron Paul and the former NSA contractor trace the genesis of the so-called Deep State, and discuss how the US intelligence community uses covert programs like those exposed by Snowden in 2013 to trample individual freedoms. The most sinister quality of the Deep State, Snowden says, is its ability to mask its very existence from the public, allowing it to undermine President Donald Trump while remaining largely hidden from scrutiny. Generally, when we’re talking about the Deep State, what we’re talking about is a mass of ...more »

In a discussion with Edward Snowden on his “Liberty Report," Ron Paul and the former NSA contractor trace the genesis of the so-called Deep State, and discuss how the US intelligence community uses covert programs like those exposed by Snowden in 2013 to trample individual freedoms. The most sinister quality of the Deep State, Snowden says, is its ability to mask its very existence from the public, allowing it to undermine President Donald Trump while remaining largely hidden from scrutiny. Generally, when we’re talking about the Deep State, what we’re talking about is a mass of ...more »

In a discussion with Edward Snowden on his “Liberty Report," Ron Paul and the former NSA contractor trace the genesis of the so-called Deep State, and discuss how the US intelligence community uses covert programs like those exposed by Snowden in 2013 to trample individual freedoms. The most sinister quality of the Deep State, Snowden says, is its ability to mask its very existence from the public, allowing it to undermine President Donald Trump while remaining largely hidden from scrutiny. Generally, when we’re talking about the Deep State, what we’re talking about is a mass of ...more »

Update June 21, 2017 A leaked EPA memo (standard journalism these days) reveals that more members of the Board of Scientific Counselors (BOSC) will not be renewed in their contracts and roles. The new wave of dismissals brings the total number of BOSC members who will be out of a job in August to 47, […]

Ex-DHS secretary: We saw “scanning and probing around voter registration databases, which concerned us greatly” https://t.co/mWMU53tq9U — CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) June 21, 2017 The Actind DHS Undersecretary also had this to add: *Acting DHS Undersecretary Jeanette Manfra confirmed in a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing what has been previously reported: that Russian operatives tried to interfere with the U.S. electoral infrastructure itself. * *“We have evidence of election-related systems in 21 states that were targeted,” Manfra testified, declining to disclose which speci...more »

NBC *FOX News:** Air Force pilot ejects after F-16 catches fire on ground* A military pilot at Houston’s Ellington Field Joint Reserve Base was injured Wednesday after ejecting from an F-16 that caught fire on the ground, the Houston Fire Department said in a pair of tweets. The pilot was transported to a hospital with minor injuries, officials said. Fire crews were en route to Ellington “to assist” with the “downed plane,” which reportedly caught on fire just before takeoff around 10:45 a.m. local time. The field was closed and placed under an evacuation order covering a 4,000 s...more »

House Speaker Paul Ryan delivered his "major" policy speech this week on the need to pass Republican tax reform. He promised it would be passed this year. As Dr. Paul points out in today's Liberty Report, there's virtually no chance tax reform will result in less government. The government will lower taxes on some people but to do so it will have to raise taxes on others. And the poor? They get hit with the most cruel tax of all: the inflation tax that comes with endless money-printing. And the military-industrial complex? They will not be tightening their belts. On the contrary...

[image: undefined] The downing of a Syrian fighter jet by the United States – and, more recently, of an Iranian drone – augurs a confrontation that could take us down the road to World War III. The US media is echoing the Pentagon’s explanation, which is that the Syrian jet bombed (or was threatening to bomb) units of the US-supported Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) around the town of Tanf. The Syrians say they were attacking forces aligned with ISIS, which both the US and the Syrian government are supposedly fighting. The reality is that there is no such entity as the “Syrian Democr...more »

In further sign of growing estrangement between the West and Turkey, Germany pulls its forces out of Incirlik as Turkey sends troops to Syria to fight the Kurds. The post BREAKING: Germany quits Incirlik, Turkey marches on Kurds appeared first on The Duran.

*(UPDATE: Thanks to Charlie Pierce for the link, though I think the post he meant to link is this one. I highly recommend his post, and not just because my name's in it.)* If you didn't know anything about the winning Republican candidate in yesterday's Georgia special election, good luck finding information on her at sites devoted to right-wing politics. The top story on the Breitbart home page right now is about the election, but it's not about the winner, Karen Handel, or the loser, Jon Ossoff. It's about the hated mainstream media: Also amassing thousands of comments: "Holly...more »

This is a long one because I had a lot to get off my chest in the first half. If you find me boring, just skip to about half way down. "During the so-called secret war in Laos(1964-1973), the US dropped the equivalent of a PLANE LOAD of BOMBS every 8 minutes for NINE YEARS straight!!! More than the bombs dropped on Germany and Japan combined during WW2. Laos is the most heavily bombed country in history! Even today, 80 million live bombs are still lying undiscovered beneath the soil and have so far claimed 200,000 lives AFTER the war ended. These still undiscovered bombs were prim...more »

*"NATO" US Fighter Jet Threatens Russian* *Defense Minister Jet in Neutral* *Skies over Baltic Sea* *A*nother day, another provocation, by the out-of-control US Navy. As I said earlier this week. The US Navy for a long time now has been acting like a "rogue" within a "rogue State". I have a particular axe to grind with the US Navy...because it was US Navy so-called "reserve" jet fighter pilots, flying out of a US airbase in one of the Arab countries that attacked the Canadian soldiers doing live fire night time exercises at Tarnak Farm just outside of the flood-lit (restricted air...more »

By Paul Homewood AEP is on his regular electric car rant today. Morgan Stanley is betting that electric cars will corner 70pc of the European vehicle market by the middle of century, leading to a drastic upheaval for the power sector and scramble for dominance of lucrative new technologies. Global banks in London and […]

*because it does.* I am currently reading two novels - one about a young boy growing up during the rise and fall of Hitler and the other about a man in post revolutionary Russia. Both are frightening. If you've ever wondered how our country evolved into the current mess, take a moment and watch the following video. While the producer hits the main points there is much more to be understood and I urge you to delve deeper into the the morass. In support of capitalism, I'm headed to Costco and the grocery store with a quick stop at the library (supported by my tax dollars) for "free...more »

*CNN*: *US spy satellites detect activity at North Korean nuclear test site* Washington (CNN)US spy satellites have detected new activity at North Korea's underground nuclear test site for the first time in several weeks, two US officials told CNN. The activity appears to involve some modifications around one of the tunnel entrances to an underground test area. The officials said it is not yet clear if the activity indicates a sixth nuclear test is imminent, but noted there is concern that North Korea could set off a test during Wednesday's visit to Washington by top Chinese di...more »

A friend posted in one of my fb groups this question, "Do free markets and privatization encourage monopolies?" I replied that innovation creates temporary micro monopolies. Government franchising, local and natl govts, create permanent monopolies. From tricycle route monopoly to electric coop area monopoly. Then a fan of Georgism or geolibertarianism argued that “Privatization of land and natural resources encourages land monopolies.” (I got this meme from the web, which I think somehow simplifies the definitions.) These guys dislike land privatization, they want communal or stat...more »

In 2005, the U.S. Office of Research Integrity found an obesity researcher had engaged in scientific misconduct. More specifically, the ORI report revealed that Eric Poehlman, then based at the University of Vermont, had “falsified and fabricated” data in 10 papers. The 2005 report asked that the journals issue retractions or corrections to the papers. […] The post 12 years after researcher found guilty of misconduct, journal retracts paper appeared first on Retraction Watch.

*Click image for larger size.* "The reason that truth is stranger than fiction is that fiction has to have a rational thread running through it in order to be believable, whereas reality may be totally irrational." - Sydney J. Harris Graphic: Salvadore Dali, “Swans Reflecting Elephants”

*“24% Of Americans Don’t Have A Single Dollar Saved For Emergency”* by PatriotRising “You can take this to the bank: Americans are messed up about money. A slew of new surveys and data have come out revealing that we don’t save enough, we spend money we don’t have, we have our financial priorities backwards - and more. Here are five new stats that prove Americans are backwards about money. *1.* About 1 in 4 literally have no emergency savings. A survey released Tuesday by Bankrate.com found that 24% don’t have even a single dollar saved for an emergency. And that’s just one of many...more »

*Thomas Cole, "Destruction of Empire", 1836* *"Coming Apart: The Imperial City At The Brink"* by Alastair Crooke "David Stockman routinely refers to President Trump as the ‘Great Disrupter’. But this is not a bad quality, he insists. Rather, it is a necessary one: Stockman argues (my paraphrasing) that Trump represents the outside force, the externality, that tips a ‘world system’ over the brink: It has to tip over the brink, because systems become too ossified, too far out on their ‘branch’ to be able to reform themselves. It does not really matter so much, whether the agency of...more »

Courtesy of the New York Times: *Senior officials across the government became convinced in January that the incoming national security adviser, Michael T. Flynn, had become vulnerable to Russian blackmail. * *At the F.B.I., the C.I.A., the Justice Department and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence — agencies responsible for keeping American secrets safe from foreign spies — career officials agreed that Mr. Flynn represented an urgent problem. * *Yet nearly every day for three weeks, the new C.I.A. director, Mike Pompeo, sat in the Oval Office and briefed President...more »

On June 21, Chief Looking Horse will be heading the World Peace and Prayer Day – an annual ceremony he founded for all “people of the Earth.” Once again I am sending my voice to all Nations upon Mother Earth, those who can hear my sincerity with their hearts - - unite together at our Sacred Sites creating an energy shift of a great healing on this June 21st. We need to see and listen to the wamakaska (the animals) who are more than ever now showing their sacred color of white, there are so many. This color represents the direction of when physical life now goes into the spirit journ...more »

*Reuters*: *Trump seizes on Republican victory in Georgia to push agenda* U.S. President Donald Trump knocked Democrats on Wednesday for obstructing his agenda, one day after a fellow Republican won a congressional race in Georgia that was widely seen as a referendum on his young, turbulent presidency. Former Georgia secretary of state Karen Handel on Tuesday defeated political newcomer Democrat Jon Ossoff, 52 percent to 48 percent. The 4-point win in the most expensive congressional race in history was a blow to Democrats, who sought to wrest control of a suburban Atlanta distric...more »

* This is my column in BusinessWorld last week. *“The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design... Planning leads to dictatorship because dictatorship is the most effective instrument of coercion and the enforcement of ideals and, as such, essential if central planning on a large scale is to be possible.”*-- Friedrich Hayek The bigger the socioeconomic unit like a state, the less central planning should be. And the smaller the socioeconomic unit like a household, the bigger the planning should be. The fami...more »

You know what scares me? That I might not be representing a Blue America candidate accurately enough, that I miss up on something important. That’s one of the reasons I encourage them to write guest posts. It’s why I’m always asking them for substantive quotes on issues before Congress. Katie Hill calls herself “the progressive alternative to Steve Knight.” The DCCC dug up some slug from Orange County last year who they ran and who lost badly-- despite Hillary’s big win in the district. The same voters who cast their ballots for her, just couldn’t bring themselves to cast one for h...more »

*Haaretz- Saudi Arabia's New Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman Is Good News for Israel and U.S. * *Saudi crown prince Bin Salman agrees with U.S. on Russia, Assad, Iran and ISIS and according to some reports, he's also met with top Israeli officials * *This consolidation of power in Saudi Arabia bodes badly for the region* *Nayeff was ousted- The divisions in Saudi Arabia have been mentioned several times here* *Al Jazeera* The series of decrees also amended Article V of the kingdom's statute of ruling, stipulating that, from now on, only the sons and grandsons of the founding King ...more »

BEIRUT, LEBANON (6:40 P.M.) – The Syrian Arab Army launched an important offensive in eastern Damascus this week, targeting the jihadist-held territory in Jobar and ‘Ayn Tarma. Led by the 105th Brigade of the Republican Guard and Special Mission Forces, the Syrian Arab Army managed to make several gains over the last 24 hours, seizing […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز

BEIRUT, LEBANON (6:10 P.M.) – The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) resumed their military operations in the eastern countryside of Damascus, Wednesday, targeting the movement of Hay’at Tahrir Al-Sham in the Bir Qassab region. According to a military source in Damascus, the Syrian Arab Army’s 5th Corps unleashed a flurry of guided missiles on the jihadist […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز

Available on AMN Live Stream Patreon for $2. Link here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/battle-of-al-40-11887259 Interview between military and geopolitical analyst Izat Charkatli and Andrew Illingworth, founder of the OZ Analysis military analysis media project. The interview represents a complete summary of the successful al-Qusayr operation carried out by Syrian Arab Army and Hezbollah against Jabhat al-Nusra and […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز

BEIRUT, LEBANON (5:40 P.M.) – The Russian Air Force has carried out several airstrikes over the eastern countryside of Hama recently, targeting the Islamic State’s (ISIL) positions near their stronghold of ‘Uqayrbat. Video footage released by the Syrian Free Press this week shows the Russian Air Force obliterating an Islamic State base near ‘Uqayrbat on […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز

DAMASCUS, SYRIA (5: 20 P.M.) – At least 11 Islamic State militants have been killed when the Syrian troops foiled their attempt to infiltrate Army positions in the eastern province of Deir Ezzor. Fierce clashes erupted near Jabiliyah district , Al-Tanmiyah sector and the proximity of cemetery area as ISIS jihadists attacked the government troops. Meanwhile, […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز

Spokesperson for the United States Department of State Heather Nauert addressed the Saudi Arabia embargo on Qatar at the daily press conference in Washington DC, Tuesday. According to Nauert, “the more time goes by, the more doubt is raised about the actions taken by Saudi Arabia” and she wondered if “were the actions really about […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز

DAMASCUS, SYRIA (4: 00) – Resounding explosions ripped through the eastern suburbs of the Syrian capital as the Syrian Army resumes a full-scale operation to retake the rebel-held districts of Jobar and Ein Tarma. The offensive – which was launched yesterday early morning – granted the government troops control of several buildings along the battlefronts […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز

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